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fix two typos in docs
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Expand Up @@ -68,6 +68,7 @@ Athey and Imbens (2006) proposed a changes-in-changes (CIC) model which generali
(Thus the standard DID model is nested in the CIC model as a special case.)
The CIC model estimates the entire distribution of outcomes under the counterfactual,
allowing one to calculate average treatment effects or estimate effects at specific quantiles.

This Stata command, `cic`, implements the CIC estimator from Athey and Imbens (2006).
`cic` is written in Mata with an effort to maximize parallel computing; in tests (not shown), I found `cic` estimated
the model more quickly that the Matlab code previously distributed by the Athey and Imbens.
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The Stata help file (cic.sthlp) provides additional documentation and examples.


# Referemces
# References

* Athey, Susan and Guido W. Imbens. "Identification and Inference in Nonlinear Difference-in-Differences Models." *Econometrica*, vol. 74, no. 2, March 2006, pp. 431-497. (http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0262.2006.00668.x)

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Expand Up @@ -171,6 +171,8 @@ Athey and Imbens (2006) proposed a changes-in-changes (CIC) model which generali
(Thus the standard DID model is nested in the CIC model as a special case.)
The CIC model estimates the entire distribution of outcomes under the counterfactual,
allowing one to calculate average treatment effects or estimate effects at specific quantiles.

{pstd}
This Stata command, `cic`, implements the CIC estimator from Athey and Imbens (2006).
`cic` is written in Mata with an effort to maximize parallel computing; in tests (not shown), I found `cic` estimated
the model more quickly that the Matlab code previously distributed by the Athey and Imbens.
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